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1. Faberge Eggs - The Style, the design, from Russia! Priceless masterpieces, opulent symbols of Easter, or fancy, useless trinkets, Faberge eggs have meant different things to different people. To collectors, they are precious, rare, and highly prized. To Stalin and his lackeys, they were reminders of...
2. Matryoshka Russian Nesting Dolls Matryoshka dolls are set of dolls designed to nest one inside another. They are cut in half at the waist to be opened. The original set of matryoshka was originally created in Russia in 1890 by Sergei Maliutin and Vasiliy Zvezdochkin, inspired by Ja...
3. John McPhee - A Pioneer of Creative Nonfiction John McPhee is regarded as one of the founders of "new journalism," a field which includes Tom Wolfe and Hunter Thompson. He does not agree with that assessment. For one thing, other "new journalists" tended to insert themselves into the narrative, w...
4. Ivan Shishkin Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (1832-1898) was a Russian landscape painter. Prolific and popular during his lifetime, his work is still beloved by Russians for its beauty and nostalgic qualities. The largest collections of Shishkin's work can be viewed at...
5. Kazimir Malevich Kazimir Malevich, (1879 - 1935 ) was a practitioner of the Suprematist school of painting. Having trained at the Kiev School of Art and Moscow Academy of Fine Arts, he started abstract geometric patterns (a style that he was to call Suprematism). H...
6. Aivazovsky Ivan Konstantinovich The world famous Russian marine painter of the Armenian origin, the collector. The brother of the Armenian historian, priest Gabriela Ayvazovsky.
7. Russian Khokhloma Khokhloma is an ancient and beautiful style of Russian folk painting from the Nizhni Novgorod region of Northwestern Russia. Khokhloma objects are both beautiful and useful. The style is most commonly used on wooden objects including utensils, bowls...